A complete rescan again did the trick! It did not in 6.5.0. Now for
making all playlists work...
--
extenso
extenso's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4858
View this thread:
Pale Blue Ego;144979 Wrote:
I really wish FLAC had standard support for embedded
art.http://flac.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/flac/flac/doc/html/changelog.html
New PICTURE metadata block for storing things like cover art, new
--picture option to flac and --import-picture option to metaflac
If you use a live CD you can play with Linux without doing anything to
the hard disk. It will be slower than a real install, but that is
usually a worthwhile tradeoff. There is a Live CD with Slimserver, you
can load it and go.
Something like DSL-N would work well on an old box, and I think
Obviously I don't have that many, but Slimserver insists in reporting
that I have 1e99 songs. Doing a rescan did not fix this.
Can I reset this number of songs?
I did not found anything about this in the forum, and running 6.3.1 on
a FSG-3 (Arm) with default SQLite. No plugins added yet, but
Hi,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
NigelMSB[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pale Blue Ego;144979 Wrote:
I really wish FLAC had standard support for embedded
art.http://flac.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/flac/flac/doc/html/changelog.html
New PICTURE metadata block for storing things
This thread is about the /Cache/FileCache folder only - thats the cache
we are all referring to.
With SlimServer 6.3 I had a fully working SlimServer / SoftSqueeze set
up and was looking to invest in a 5-room SqueezeBox configuration
(though i have also raised a query about whether there will be
For Sale : Brand New Unlocked Cellphones,Ipods,Laptops,Game Consoles
(Factory Sealed/warranty)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / Telecomms... Dear Sir/Ma We are a
electronics, telecomms / computer trading company with the varying
electrical items available in stock for sale.Below is a well
eleudidated list of
For Sale : Brand New Unlocked Cellphones,Ipods,Laptops,Game Consoles
(Factory Sealed/warranty)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / Telecomms... Dear Sir/Ma We are a
electronics, telecomms / computer trading company with the varying
I totally deleted my install directory and installed
SlimServer_6.5_v2006-10-11.exe just now. It ran OK (though oddly its
attempt to run after install failed - i had to manually start it).
10 mins later the cache is 92MB and growing rapidly...
--
rbdavis
Back up to 400+MB now...
--
rbdavis
rbdavis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7751
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105
Have you tried the Clear library and rescan everything option in the
Server Settings/Rescan library section - it is an option in the drop
down box.
--
bpa
bpa's Profile:
And back to SlimServer 6.3 and i have an immediately working system
again...
Seems mysql might be spoiling things for the rest of the class...
--
rbdavis
rbdavis's Profile:
Seems mysql might be spoiling things for the rest of the class...
MySQL has nothing to do with the FileCache.
--
Michael
-
http://www.herger.net/SlimCD - your SlimServer on a CD
http://www.herger.net/slim - AlbumReview,
I don't like the idea of making adjustments to one program because
another program has messed up the data the program works with.
Slimserver doesn't give priority to the album artist for
non-compilation albums. What you're seeing is an unexpected behaviour
due to the messed up information in your
Brooks,
First, I want to say thanks for maintaining the freebsd port. I installed
6.3.1 without a hitch. I am having problems with my upgrade to 6.5. I
deinstalled 6.3.1 (/usr/ports/audio/slimserver make deinstall). I
deinstalled mysql (same, make deinstall). I have wiped the
Just to kick a few more ideas around:
I have been monitoring a particularly troublesome stream, which started
stuttering after I loaded 6.5.1 and Softsqueeze 3.x.x. Now running SS
3.2.1 but effect is the same. (Timing could be coincidence tho')
The stream runs at 192Kb/s - Love Channel on
Michael Herger;145110 Wrote:
It's called Customize playlist display - better suggestions are
welcome
:-)
I can't find that!
Which page is this setting on?
--
MillmoorRon
MillmoorRon's Profile:
When monitoring did you see if any of the stream (video especially) are
using QoS measures such as DiffServ ?
--
bpa
bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806
View this thread:
Can't say my monitoring tools only check bit rates.
How could I check?
Further measurements using my PDA to play back the stream via
ActiveSync thro' my PC is stutterless!
--
Ramage
P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145, Alien 1.06
P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, Slimserver Version:
Hmm - I've checked the latest iTunes SDK and that's the only Volume
related value they've documented.
If you can post a snippet of the Itunes XML file for affected files I'm
happy to look again.
Alternatively there's the worst case option to delete your iTunes
database and reimport all your
It's called Customize playlist display - better suggestions are
welcome
I can't find that!
Which page is this setting on?
Be sure you've enabled the Music Information Screen plugin (Server
Settings - Plugins - you might have to restart Slimserver after
installation). Then go to Player
Gildahl;145156 Wrote:
Unfortunately, when I run the second script, it only clears out the
manual volume adjustments set by the slider bar. When I reimport, the
decibel adjustments apparently made by the sound check action are still
there.
I've checked in the SlimServer code - it looks like
I can only see one setting for file location. Is it possible to have
more than one - I have two separate NAS drives, and I'd like to point
at both, but I can't see an easy way to do it.
I would imagine that it's possible as I guess the slimserver database
stores a pointer to the file.
cheers,
MeSue;145199 Wrote:
The Macsense HomePod has a USB port so you can connect an external
drive. http://www.macsense.com/product/homepod/
I bought one in early 2005, and it was horrible so I returned it and
got the Squeezebox. Never used it with an external drive while I had
it, and it looks
If you really do have 100s of GB's in your FileCache directory, the
first time you run a build of 6.5 with the cache cleanup code, it will
take a long time for it to clean out the cache. Just let it run. For
more detailed info you can run slim.exe --d_server from the command
line.
--
andyg
It's been a while since I dealt with QoS and I'm not sure if it is used
generally but XP implemented it. I don't know of specific tools just
general ones like Ethereal.
Perhaps if you disabled QoS in the XP network interface it would be
interesting to see if it makes a difference to Video
nicketynick;145305 Wrote:
Interesting bit of kit, in that it does provide the portability Kyle is
looking for - but it doesn't appear to support FLAC currently..
It also is wireless, which I don't want to pay for because I don't need
it. Is there something simpler that is wired-only? It
I can only see one setting for file location. Is it possible to have
more than one - I have two separate NAS drives, and I'd like to point
at both, but I can't see an easy way to do it.
to point is the keyword: you can put shortcuts from one to the other in
the main folder. This will be
Andy,
Noticed quite a few recent check-ins in svn re: rebuffering streams.
What differences in player behavior should we be looking for at this
time?
Also, would the changes impact player performance when a plugin
(SuperDateTime) makes async_http call while playing a remote stream?
Thanks.
QoS was disabled, but I tried with it on and off with no noticeable
difference in results.
This particular stream is marginal as my measurements give it an
average bit rate of less than 192K - nominally 185K with peaks and
troughs of 201K and 134K.
The interesting thing is that SB3 copes well
atlslim;145329 Wrote:
Andy,
Noticed quite a few recent check-ins in svn re: rebuffering streams.
What differences in player behavior should we be looking for at this
time?
Also, would the changes impact player performance when a plugin
(SuperDateTime) makes async_http call while playing
Of course you're right...and I am slowly going through my tagsbut a
quick short-term fix would have been to be able to get SS to ignore the
'album artist' tags...I suspect I'm not alone in experiencing unexpected
behaviour since upgrading to 6.5
I'm still not sure why SS gives priority to
I'm an architect w/ a couple of SB3. The one thing that would be really
cool...is if SB could be made in a form factor that would fit in a
standard duplex switch box w/ a switchplate (and a nifty hotswap
bay). It looks like it would almost fit in a quad-outlet box as it's
designed now.
Pair it
Andy
New buffer management works OK on SB3, but not on SSq 3.2.1, is that
how it should be?
--
Ramage
P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145, Alien 1.06
P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, Slimserver Version: 6.5.1 - 10147, Alien 1.06
Softsqueeze can't benefit from the rebuffering code, it doesn't report
buffer status in the same way. I'm sure this will get fixed in a
future Softsqueeze version.
--
andyg
andyg's Profile:
Thought that might be the case.
Noticed that on start of (my marginal test) stream, SB3 reads about 3%
then rapidly depletes to 0% and rebuffers to about 5% and holds steady
at that.
Is the rebuffer different to the start-up buffer?
--
Ramage
P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version:
That's how it works in last night's build. I've made a few tweaks to it
today, so it won't rebuffer unless the buffer is completely drained.
--
andyg
andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292
Thanks Andy
--
Ramage
P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145, Alien 1.06
P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, Slimserver Version: 6.5.1 - 10147, Alien 1.06
Ramage's Profile:
Hi
I'm controlling my squeezebox from a automation tool installed on my
PC. I'm using tcp cli commands (mac address button command) to
control the squeezebox.
Everything, exept of the button play command works as I want.
If I choose an album with my remote control and press play the current
I've also made another change: the Show Buffer Fullness display on
remote streams where the bitrate is known will now display the number
of seconds of audio in the buffer, instead of the percentage value
which wasn't very useful.
--
andyg
On 10/10/06, smc2911 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
neurophyre;145151 Wrote: Funny, I came here to make a post asking if there's any way to improve
performance on low-end machines.Hitting play on a directory with a few hundred files in it (say I want to listen to a shuffle of all my alternative music,
Yes, I have. Full wipe and scan.
--
Nostromo
Nostromo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6322
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28571
Thanks, found it now.
I'm sure that option wasn't there last time I looked!
--
MillmoorRon
MillmoorRon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6413
View this thread:
Slimpy - thanks for sticking with me on this one.
As previously said I'd had problems caused by 'Album Artist' tags being
automatically updated by WMP (now disabled option)atributing tracks to
compilation albums. I've subsequently gone through the collection
removing this inaccurate data. But I
On 10/11/06, Nostromo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I have. Full wipe and scan.Then one of two things is happening -- either the files have two tags (they can have id3v1 and id3v2 tags at the same time), or SS is guessing based on folder structure and file name. I don't think it guesses genre tags
All i have is time and i love tinkering and am geeky. Why is it better
to set up the extra computer with slim server using linux as opposed to
windows? i am asumming linux would run faster for the limited resources
of the computer?
thanks for the info. the ready install cd seems like a great
andyg;145320 Wrote:
If you really do have 100s of GB's in your FileCache directory, the
first time you run a build of 6.5 with the cache cleanup code, it will
take a long time for it to clean out the cache. Just let it run. For
more detailed info you can run slim.exe --d_server from the
I've got an old dual PII (233) box setup with Kubuntu and slimserver.
The only thing I don't like about it is the extra power it draws.
Otherwise, it serves 2 SB3s and a couple of squeezeboxes without
problems (FLACs and MP3s).
And I really love the Weathertime plug-in... It's worth it just
I've got my SlimServer running on a headless Win2k3 box with an 800Mhz
PIII and 512mb RAM.
OS choice was simply because I got Win2K3 free with a MSDN subscription
at work, and I'm familiar with it. I plan on doing a *nix (probably
Ubuntu) setup eventually when I've got a little tinkering
tucson5;145390 Wrote:
All i have is time and i love tinkering and am geeky. Why is it better
to set up the extra computer with slim server using linux as opposed to
windows?
Well:
- it's free
- it's fun
- you learn something
- Linux is generally more stable than Windows. Note the term
:-)
That's cool!
It's neat to try to see how many albums you have - some of them go by
pretty fast.
--
Mark Lanctot
Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071
View this thread:
interesting! will try that out later tonight..
many thanks!
--
wullsy
wullsy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5251
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28570
azinck3;145401 Wrote:
Is there anything wrong with Andy's suggestion of an mp3 player with
rockbox? It sounds like *precisely* what you're looking for.
Most don't have USB ports to access an external hard drive, so you're
limited to the space on the internal drive.
--
JJZolx
Jim
Kyle;145179 Wrote:
I would like a device that will play my FLAC files directly from my
external hard drive though powered speakers. Is there a device that
will allow me to eliminate the PC and LAN from the equation when I want
my music portable?
I think the best list of devices that
absolutely brilliant.
--
SlimPvC
SlimPvC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=51
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28582
Is it possible to play random tracks from a selected year, or even a
selected decade. I can't see any obvious way at the moment.
I used to have this feature on another bit of software and I found it
really handy. e.g. play a random mix of stuff I've bought this year.
If not, 7.0 PLEASE?
I have done this already. Really nice functionality especially for
freaks like myself that like to randomly browse their music
collection in any possible kind of way ;-)
As I am currently not at home I cannot give you an exact specification
but it is something like this:
- Go to the players
JJZolx;145406 Wrote:
Most don't have USB ports to access an external hard drive, so you're
limited to the space on the internal drive.
FWIW, the iAudio (Cowon) X5 seems to be a favorite of some of the
Rockbox developers, so it's very likely to be a well-maintained port.
It's also got a very
hi, does anyone know a way to change the slimserver-ip address on a
squeezebox... without using the remote control (which in this case is
awol, and the slimserver is on a different network so auto-detection
won't work)?
In the tech info pages (html/docs/protocol.html) it appears that there
azinck3;145401 Wrote:
Is there anything wrong with Andy's suggestion of an mp3 player with
rockbox? It sounds like *precisely* what you're looking for.
The problem is that the device would be limited by the size of its
storage capacity and would require transferring music files to its
DOH!
Cheers Sebastian!
It would be nice to have it hanging off the random menu somehow though.
--
Flamingo
Flamingo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7504
View this thread:
Upgraded to 6.5 and my playlists do not work anymore. When attempting
to edit them via the web interface no tracks are displayed. When
attempting to play them the web interface shows zero files, even though
the files do contain information.
I do have the following plugins installed:
I found it a bit bloody and unpleasant. Did remind me of iTunes though.
MC
--
ModelCitizen
Now what?
Squeezebox3 (linear PSU) Benchmark Dac1 Naim NAC 82 Naim NAP 250
Shahinian Arcs. Plus other irrelevant, superfluous and annoying black
boxes.
Music catalog:
I disabled DynamicPlaylist, SQLPlaylist, CustomerBrowse plugins but
still no tracks in my playlists after restarting SlimServer. The link
is there in the web interface but when clicking I get the playlist
title but no tracks.
--
socialxray
Kyle Wrote:
Do they make what I'm looking for?
By the sounds of it i don't think so :)
--
funkstar
funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335
View this thread:
(1) try the latest 6.5.1 nightly
(2) do a full clear and rescan of the library
(3) turn on the d_scan debug flag and have a look at the log output
when you force a scan. If you have a large library you might want to
give yourself a small test version so you can see what's happening more
Hmm, no replies to this so either no-one knows what is causing the
problem or no-one has a clue what I'm talking about! If it's the latter
will someone please tell me so I can have another go as this is a
really annoying problem.
I suppose the alternative is to go back to 6.3 to see if the
Kyle;145416 Wrote:
The problem is that the device would be limited by the size of its
storage capacity and would require transferring music files to its
internal drive. I've already got the music files on a hard drive,
which is fairly portable. I'm just looking for a one-stop device that
slimpy;145277 Wrote:
I don't like the idea of making adjustments to one program because
another program has messed up the data the program works with.
Slimserver doesn't give priority to the album artist for
non-compilation albums. What you're seeing is an unexpected behaviour
due to the
well, I'll admit I'm not following you so far. however, if you wish to
tackle it again, I'd recommend working with a 6.5.1 nightly build (or
waiting a day or two for the 6.5.1 release). There were some tagging
issues in 6.5.0 that could easily be causing confusion here.
-kdf
--
kdf
Some people have too much time on their hands.
Good though!
--
MillmoorRon
MillmoorRon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6413
View this thread:
I used to be able to sync my live365 stream across players using
Slimserver 6.3.1. Upgrading to 6.5.1 broke this... I entered bug 4236
(http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4326). Note, running the
players individually and connecting to live365 streams fine - just does
not work anymore
Hi-
After updating to 6.5, my special folders I named with punctuation, are
now alphabatized based on the first letter after the punctuation. I want
my special folders to be first. Is there a way to make this happen
without naming them AA?
Thanks,
SL
--
Sam Lowry
And have you run a 6.5.1 nightly build to have it clean out the cache?
--
andyg
andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105
I have read all the threads and still cannot get my sirius feed to play
any suggestions???
Need help please!!
Thanks,
Musicman
--
musicman
musicman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2940
View
kweller;145493 Wrote:
My MP3s are correctly tagged - the artist field contains the name of the
artist. The album artist field contains 'Various Artists' for
compilations and the name of the recording artist for the rest.
Why do you set the album artist to 'Various Artists'? I don't see any
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Slimpy wrote:
Why do you set the album artist to 'Various Artists'? I don't see any
use for that.
I use that within my tagging software to group all compilation albums
into the same folder tree.
I don't understand why that would cause a problem to Slimserver as
On 10/11/06, Kevin Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],Slimpy wrote: Why do you set the album artist to 'Various Artists'? I don't see any
use for that.I use that within my tagging software to group all compilation albumsinto the same folder tree.I don't understand why
Do you have List albums by band selected in Server settings - Behavior
- Compilations?
What happens if you change it to List albums by all artists for that
album?
-s.
--
slimpy
slimpy's Profile:
Ben Sandee;145529 Wrote:
I use this feature to categorize all soundtracks into a separate
VA-type
folder. I set the TPE2 to Film Soundtracks, which creates an artist
with
this name in the artist list.
Fair enough.
Do you see the same behaviour Kevin describes?
-s.
--
slimpy
I'll look into these things a bit more deeply, but here are a few
observations I made.
1. When I look at the iTunes Music Library.xml file, the only tracks
that have a volume adjustment tag are those for which I have made
volume adjustments using the slider. This implies that the other
(sound
It would be great if Slim Server's song info had a link onto the
internet for song lyrics...
--
earthbased
earthbased's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=334
View this thread:
I was running the nightly build that i mentioned. I started with a cache
of 0 (i had deleted the entire directory) and it increased over about 30
mins to 500MB, leaving no space on the C drive.
Are you saying it would gradually decrease again?
Why can't i put this huge cache on my music drive,
http://slimlyrics.sourceforge.net/
--
radish
radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28596
It's probably album art. Run the cachedump script to see.
--
andyg
andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28105
TJ Angstman;145280 Wrote:
I get the following error:
compslim# /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl
061011 5:17:31 [ERROR] Fatal error: Please read Security section of
the
manual to find out how to run mysqld as root!
061011 5:17:31 [ERROR] Aborting
This isn't the correct way of
The plugin author monitors this thread:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20621
You should turn on debugging for plugins and post the log entry output
to that thread after attempting to connect to Sirius.
from web ui -- Server settingsdebuggingd_plugins
--
atlslim
My first post on this forum...
I noticed my regular computer running SlimServer began having a problem
immediately after I installed 6.5 a few days ago. SlimServer runs for a
while, and then dies. This did not occur with releases in the past.
I came to this thread during my search of an answer
i was thinking what would be perfect for a whole house system would be
something modular, where you'd have a box with a tuner and maybe some
audio inputs along with card slots for SB3 cards which would be the
audio portion of a sb3, then have a wall controller that had the screen
with some
True, and I did this, but the output is silent as the script runs as a
daemon. So, I manually ran the server and this is the issue I have
after installing the port. In other words, running the rc.conf script
just looks like this, with no server running:
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/slimserver.sh
Then one of two things is happening -- either the files have two tags
(they
can have id3v1 and id3v2 tags at the same time), or SS is guessing
based on
folder structure and file name. I don't think it guesses genre tags
though,
so the two tags thing is most likely. MP3Tag can make it clear
ModelCitizen;145394 Wrote:
I do wonder if this works correctly all the time on XP.
I had something similar. Slimserver appeared to hold on to a tag that
had been removed from a file a while ago. Even after doing a full wipe
and rescan SlimServer still included this tag. I only managed to get
I've been doing this all along on Windows - Up until very recently, I
actually pointed to a folder that *only* contains shortcuts to my
various collections and drives... never had a problem with it.
--
vacaboca
vacaboca's
I am having the exact same problems with YAML::Syck.
Starting the slimserver I get the following error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# ./slimserver start
Starting SlimServer: The following modules failed to load: YAML::Syck
To download and compile them, please run:
94 matches
Mail list logo